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1. Secretary Napolitano needs to go. She rushed to judgment to protect her agency when she stated matter-of-factly that “the system worked”, when in fact it was clear it did not. Now she has done a 180 degree reversal and has admitted that security failed to prevent a Nigerian Terrorist to board Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. She has lost all credibility.

2. The President must speak out forcefully and publicly in regard to the brutal and inhumane “protest killings” that are taking place in Iran. The President is quick to call for economic sanctions against Iran and slow to condemn human rights abuses and murder. The President more than any other World Leader has the power to call attention to human rights violations and violations of international law. If he stays silent he emboldens the Iranian’s to step up their efforts to silence any and all opposition. I suggest that he cancel his golf game, postpone his basketball game and put off his gym workout in Hawaii and step up to the plate and deal more hands on with terrorism and Iran’s latest power plays. While he is at it, if he has the time, he may want to do a little more to get Americans back to work.

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